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There seems to be a lot of depression going around these days, which shouldn't be surprising, given the stress of the holidays and the continuing psychic fallout of Sept. 11. What is surprising is how many more depressed people are getting treatment--at least compared with 10 years ago. I remember in my first year of medical school, back in the late 1980s, being taught about a new class of antidepression medications called SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, of which Prozac is now the most famous. What we didn't realize then is that the SSRIs would start...
...boys' night out in London traditionally leads to blood-red eyes and a splitting headache the morning after. But for footballers John Terry, Jody Morris and Desmond Byrne, the fallout from a Jan. 3 booze-up has been far more enduring than a hangover: after a disturbance in a London club that included an alleged attack on its doorman, the three players were arrested and charged with affray and assault causing actual bodily harm. Last Wednesday, after pleading not guilty to the charges in a London magistrate's court, they were remanded on bail to face committal proceedings next month...
...party to the richest tale of greed, self-dealing and political access since junk-bond king Michael Milken was jailed in 1991. That's just what the President, hoping to convert momentum from his war on terrorism to the war on recession, desperately wants to avoid. The fallout will swing on the following key questions...
Caught in the Fallout...
...London's Financial Times, the fact that the crisis had been visibly in the making for years acted to contain any international fallout. "Because the crisis has been predictable," wrote columnist Martin Wolf, "there may be minimal contagion to other borrowers." But Argentina's collapse will sway international thinking on currency convertibility and the debt levels that can be sustained by developing countries, and the role of the International Monetary Fund. "Senior officials at the Fund argue that the Fund is caught in a trap. If it refuses to support the government, it will be blamed for the chaos that...